Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★
★★★ Aoife from Galway says, "Sure there's no z in Nous avons six oranges at all." How many are there, and where?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ ★, z, many · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Nous avons · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★» of the French course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: ★★★ Aoife from Galway says, "Sure there's no z in Nous avons six oranges at all."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Aoife | case |
| 4 | Aoife | Aoife | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Galway | case |
| 6 | Galway | Galway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sure | punct |
| 10 | Sure | sure | INTJ | _ | 12 's | discourse |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 's | expl |
| 12 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | ccomp |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 z | det |
| 14 | z | z | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 's | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 avons | case |
| 16 | Nous | Nous | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 avons | compound |
| 17 | avons | avon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 's | obl |
| 18 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 oranges | nummod |
| 19 | oranges | orange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 avons | nmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 all | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 oranges | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | ★ ★ ★ Aoife from Galway | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | no z | Nous avons six oranges at all; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in avon=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: How many are there, and where?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 there | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 where | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 where | cc |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 there | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many | there property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
One: only six_oranges
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 oranges | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 six | advmod |
| 4 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 oranges | nummod |
| 5 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 oranges | amod |
| 6 | oranges | orange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
None at all, she's right
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 7 right | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 None | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 None | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 right | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 right | cop |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | None | right property | tree rules |
Option 3
Three: nous, avons and six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 nous | punct |
| 3 | nous | nous | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Three | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 avons | punct |
| 5 | avons | avon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 nous | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 six | cc |
| 7 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 avons | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Two: avons and oranges
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 avons | nummod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 avons | punct |
| 3 | avons | avon | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 oranges | cc |
| 5 | oranges | orange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 avons | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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